Remote-First Staff Engineer, Compute Platform & Routing

Coinbase, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 218,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team. You’ll own the routing layer that connects every service to customers and build core compute orchestration infrastructure using CNCF technologies (Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes).

You’ll design and ship routing capabilities at scale, improve latency and reliability, and enhance the paved-road experience for developers with AI-driven tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering and infrastructure experience.
• Experience with routing technologies including reverse proxies, ingress controllers, CDN/WAF, and service mesh is required.
• Proficiency in systems programming languages (Go, Python, or Java) with production-grade infra experience.
• Experience scaling backend infrastructure on AWS, with networking, compute, and container orchestration knowledge.
• Deep familiarity with CNCF ecosystem (Kubernetes, Envoy, Istio) and ability to contribute to these techs in production.
• Ability to diagnose complex distributed systems issues and drive them to resolution independently.
• Experience applying AI tooling to infrastructure workflows to improve efficiency, reliability, or developer velocity.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and automation of routing infrastructure directing application traffic to Kubernetes backends at scale.
• Build capabilities on top of Envoy-based reverse proxies, Istio gateways, Ambient mesh, and SPIFFE service authentication.
• Improve latency, reliability, and performance of routing systems across Coinbase's production environment.
• Shape the paved-road developer experience for operating applications at Coinbase, with AI-driven tooling and processes.
• Collaborate with Security, Reliability, and Observability teams to meet cross-cutting platform requirements.

Skills

Routing infrastructure

Distributed systems

Go/Python/Java

AWS

AI tooling

Tools

Envoy

Istio

Kubernetes

Job description

Coinbase is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team. You’ll own the routing layer that connects every service to customers and build core compute orchestration infrastructure using CNCF technologies (Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes).

You’ll design and ship routing capabilities at scale, improve latency and reliability, and enhance the paved-road experience for developers with AI-driven tooling.